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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 851
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Pacific 12/06/75: The USS Haddock (SSN-621) develops a leak and floods during a deep dive
while on a test run near Hawaii. The U.S. Navy confirms the incident, but denies the vessel is
unsafe as crew members had charged in late October. A number of enlisted men had
protested sending the ship to sea, claiming it had cracks in the main cooling piping, leaks, and
malfunctions and deficiencies in other systems, including the steering mechanism. The
Navy replied that in accordance with strict safety procedures any problems are corrected
before the ship goes to sea.
Pacific 12/06/77: The USS Pintado (SSN-672) sustains damage to the top of its rudder in a
minor collision with a South Korean Navy ship during exercises off Korea. The Pintado
initiated emergency deep dive procedures when the surface ship turned toward the submarine at close range.
1917 A German submarine torpedoes the USS Jacob Jones DD61 off the coast of England.
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/jjones.htm
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1889
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: 12-6 Incidents
I found the DD61 story interesting. My daughter-in-law had a great-great uncle who was USN Armed Guard on a cargo ship. He died when a U boat sank them in November 1917.
Here is a link to another 12-6 incident from WWI:
http://mashable.com/2016/02/15/halifax-explosion/#m4c8Uhhuhuql
Lots of photos in the link.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: 12-6 Incidents
6 Dec 1917 U 53 Hans Rose Jacob Jones (uss) Destroyer 1,050 am
This was the only War Ship sunk by the U 53.
https://uboat.net/wwi/boats/successes/u53.html
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1796
Location: Albany, GA. | Subject: RE: 12-6 Incidents
Boy, tomorrow is going to be a long list isn't it? My flag will be out and at 1/2 Staff
Edited by Sewer Pipe Snipe 2017-12-06 8:15 AM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1889
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: 12-6 Incidents
Ric,
The U Boat site is a great web site. I found what I was looking for there:
https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/5163.html
Thanks
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: 12-6 Incidents
Yep, been using it for years. I've talked with the folks there a bunch of times and even made some contributions to their data base. |
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